It may be no coincidence that peaks of inequality of income happened just before the 1929 and 2008 crashes. It is arguable that much of the economic activity in America is economic rent, basically easy money that the economic elites extract from everyone else for the questionable privilege of living in the world that those elites literally own -- and the elites will not let us forget that they are the economic masters. But we dare not show dissent.
if you wonder why, despite such marvelous technology and inexpensive entertainment (and really, it is) and envy your grandparents living in the 1950s -- then you now know why.
if you wonder why, despite such marvelous technology and inexpensive entertainment (and really, it is) and envy your grandparents living in the 1950s -- then you now know why.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.